Bill is Legal Director of the Center for Constitutional
Rights. Bill and Davida are law professors at Loyola University New
Orleans.Lance is Executive Director of
the Southern Institute for Education and Research at TulaneUniversity.You can reach Bill at quigley77@gmail.com, Davida at dfinger@loyno.edu, and Lance at lhill@tulane.edu.

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It will be five years since Katrina on August 29.The impact of Katrina is quite painful for
regular people in the area.This article
looks at what has happened since Katrina not from the perspective of the higher
ups looking down from their offices but from the street level view of the
people a view which looks at the
impact on the elderly, the renter, people of color, the disabled, the working
and non-working poor.So, while one
commentator may happily say that the median income in New Orleans has risen since Katrina, a street
level perspective recognizes that is because large numbers of the poorest
people have not been able to return.

Five years after Katrina, tens of thousands of homes in New Orleans remain vacant
or blighted.Tens of thousands of
African American children who were in the public schools have not made it back,
nor have their parents.New Orleans has lost at
least 100,000 people.Thousands of
elderly and disabled people have not made it back.Affordable housing is not readily available
so tens of thousands pay rents that are out of proportion to their wages.Race and gender remain excellent indicators
of who is underpaid, who is a renter, who is in public school and who is low
income.

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In short, the challenges facing New
Orleans after Katrina are the same ones facing millions of people
of color, women, the elderly and disabled and their children across the US.Katrina just made these challenges clearer in
New Orleans
than in many other places. Here is where we are five years later.

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